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Director 

Hanan Haddad, Ph.D.

Hanan Hammad
Professor
The Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History and Director of the AAEF Center of Arab Studies.
hhhammad@uh.edu 

Program Director 

Higgins

Patrick Higgins
Program Director of the AAEF Center of Arab Studies
phiggins@central.uh.edu 


Faculty

Hosam Aboul-Ela, Ph.D.

Hosam Aboul-Ela
Inaugural holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Burhan and Misako Ajouz Professorship in Arab Studies at the University of Houston

Professor, Department of English  
haboul-ela@uh.edu

 

Hayan Charara, Ph.D.

Hayan Charara
Poet, novelist, children’s book author, essayist, and editor
Associate Professor, The Honors College
hcharara@uh.edu

 

David McNally, Ph.D.

David McNally
Cullen Distinguished Professor of History & Business
Department of History
djmcnally@uh.edu

 

Cihan Yüksel, Ph.D.

Cihan Yüksel
Acting Director (AY 2022-23), Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies
Associate Professor of Ottoman History
Department of History
ecyuksel@uh.edu

 

Associate Fellows

Dina

Dina Alsowayel (retired)
Associate Director of the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
dalsoway@central.uh.edu

 

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Hadeel Assali
hassali@central.uh.edu

 

Emran

Dr. Emran El-Badawi
Dean of the College of Liberal & Fine Arts,
Tarleton State University
eelbadawi@tarleton.edu 

Senior Fellows

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Ussama Makdisi
Professor of History and Chancellor's Chair
University of California, Berkeley
makdisi@berkeley.edu

 

Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Ph.D.

Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Founding Director of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies and 
Inaugural holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History.
He is currently Associate Professor of History and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies at Rice University
atakriti@rice.edu